Saturday, 14 January 2017

Ragnar’s Rupture

The Shots team were delighted to be able to attend Ragnar Jonasson’s launch party for his novel Rupture,
a startling addition to his Dark Iceland series. I first met Ragnar a few years
ago before he was published in English, when he joined the Quiz Team I was captaining at a Crimefest
event in Bristol. I was impressed by Ragnar’s knowledge and insight into the
work of Dame Agatha Christie.

So the literary critics and crime-fiction reviewers gathered at David
Headley’sGoldsboro
Books in London’s West-End, so celebrate the latest work from the dark
imagination of Ragnar Jonasson.

So what is Rupture
all about?

1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited,
isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women
meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty
years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the
couples may not have been alone on the fjord after all…

In nearby Siglufjörður, young policeman Ari Thór
tries to piece together what really happened that fateful night, in a town
where no one wants to know, where secrets are a way of life. He's assisted by
Ísrún, a news reporter in Reykjavik who is investigating an increasingly
chilling case of her own. Things take a sinsister turn when a child goes
missing in broad daylight. With a stalker on the loose, and the town of
Siglufjörður in quarantine, the past might just come back to haunt them.

Haunting, frightening and complex, Rupture is a
dark and atmospheric thriller from one of Iceland's foremost crime writers.

Ayo Onatade recently
interviewed Ragnar, as part of his blog tour, and his insight can be sampled Here